Any minute now, the evil fountain will realize that Beast is gone from being next to it and will try to scare Beauty away. I'll likely be wrong but I'll still throw it out there as a possibility!
"Hm? Beast, when did you spill ketchup on your clothes?"
"During lunch. I went to the garden to collect tomatoes to make a new batch, and things got out of hand..."
I think it’s been mostly covered. He attempted suicide in a place of great magic. Whether he was being punished for “defiling” the place or his realization that he didn’t actually want to die was the trigger is not clear.
The perspective on the second panel took me a moment to figure out. I kept wondering "Oh my gosh did he get BIGGER?!", but nope. In any case, Beauty is now realizing that the Beast is wounded and that he must have done something hinky, magic-wise. The big question is, how will she manage to heal him?
